Software:Prisoners of the Sun (video game)

Short description: 1997 video game

Prisoners of the Sun
CD box art
Developer(s)	Infogrames Multimedia (SNES) Bit Managers (Game Boy, GBC) East Point Software (PC)
Publisher(s)	Infogrames Multimedia
Designer(s)	Vannara Ty
Composer(s)	Fabrice Bouillon-LaForest Emmanuel Régis (SNES) Alberto Jose González (Game Boy, GBC)
Platform(s)	Windows, MS-DOS, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color
Release	SNES: EU: February 9, 1997 Game Boy Color: EU: September 8, 2000
Genre(s)	Third-person adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Prisoners of the Sun is a video game based on The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun from the series The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was released for the SNES, Windows, Game Boy and Game Boy Color by late 1997 and 2000.

Gameplay

The beginning of the first level

Prisoners of the Sun is a Platform game. The player controls the character Tintin around obstacles and through challenges to complete the various levels of the game. The gameplay and animation of this game is similar to Infogrames' previous release, Tintin in Tibet, which was released in 1995.

Release

It was released in 1997 for PC, SNES and Game Boy and later re-released in 2000 for Game Boy Color.

External links

• Prisoners of the Sun at Tintinologist.org